The Prodigies [First Draft]

Sixteen

After calling roll, the man who Kenny assumed was the coach shouted, "Form two lines: girls in one, boys in the other!"

The children began to queue behind each other facing the locker rooms. Kenny fell behind the girl whose Gift she had seen demonstrated yesterday, Flower. The teen turned around, and Kenny waved, hoping to become acquainted with at least one of her fellow group members. Instead, the grass around Kenny's feet noticeably began to die, and a small daffodil beside her wilted. Flower coughed in order to suppress her laughter.

"You've all got five minutes to change into your gym uniform starting now," the coach bellowed as he clicked a stopwatch.

The students took off. Kenny was about to follow them when her coach caught her by her shoulder. She halted in her tracks and turned to look at the male, waiting for him to reveal why he had stopped her. The coach waited until everyone was in the locker rooms to begin speaking.

"I'm Coach Magram, your P.E teacher on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I don't think I have you for Training, so I'll only ever be your athletics instructor. We will always start class out here by the Pavilion, and you get five minutes everyday to change. You'll go to Mr. Roberto's classroom on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so you won't need to change into your uniform those days. Speaking of your uniform...."

Coach Magram led Kenny inside the locker rooms. A small area separated the boys' changing rooms from the girls', and in order to get to either places, Kenny would have to swipe her ID card on the scanners. Coach noticed that the young girl was observing the chamber and told her, "You're only allowed into the dressing room of the gender specified on your card. If you try to enter the boys' locker rooms, your card will be rejected, and I'll get sent an alert. I've only ever gotten an alert twice in my whole career as a teacher here, and I would like to keep it that way."

That will be noted, Kenny thought to herself.

However, the more Kenny pondered the alert system, the more useless it seemed. If anyone wanted to get into the other locker room, they would just have to swipe their card on one scanner, then have someone let them through the other door. Unless there was someone inside the changing room to watch children as they came in, the alert system was unnecessary. There would have to be something else keeping the students out of the other locker rooms.

Kenny shook her head clear and watched as Coach Magram opened a small compartment the young girl hadn't noticed before, pulling out a shirt and shorts. He tossed the girl her gym uniform, which she sorely missed, and said, "You've got four minutes to change your clothes starting now."

The young girl pressed her ID card against the scanner and scurried into the girls' locker room.

Kenny put her backpack and and clothes down on a bench in the middle of the room and took her sweater off. Using her toes, she quickly pulled her feet out of her shoes. The young girl fumbled with the zipper at the back of her dress, but it only took a second before she managed to pull it down. She slipped off her dress, taking her stockings along with it, and pulled her shirt down over her head.

It was only as Kenny was pulling on her shorts did she become aware of the fact that she had no sneakers to wear during her calisthenics class. As if that wasn't enough, the young girl then found that there were no pockets on her gym uniform to put her ID card inside of. How was she supposed to take it with her?

"One minute!" the coach warned from outside. Kenny looked around and quickly placed her clothes into an empty locker. She turned the key in the lock so the contraption clicked into place, removing the key and placing it in her bookbag when she was done. By the time she was finished, Coach Magram had already started counting down the last twenty seconds.